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Ronald M. Bernard, of Sandisfield, found plenty of anecdotes for his 388-page “The Little Brown Church of New Boston, Mass., and the Lives of Its Pastors.”

Bob goes largely uncredited for having nudged the Berkshire community to take a second look at the achievements of Great Barrington son William E.B. Du Bois. Appropriately, Bobs memorial service

Pittsfield native Ralph G. Burton was a forestry dynamo. Among his achievements was the invention of the Biltmore Pachymeter, a device to gauge upper stem tree diameter from the ground.

Amtrak is scheduling its second summer of Berkshire Flyers from Penn Station in Manhattan by way of Renssellaer. The specials echo the “Millionaires Expresses” to the Berkshires of a dozen

The multi-wed Mdivani brothers — sons of Gen. Zakhari Mdivani (1867-1933) and his wife Elizabeth Viktordovna Sabelewska Mdivani (1884-1922) of the Republic of Georgia — got their first taste of

Edith and Teddy Wharton left their first motorcar, a Panhard et Levassor, behind in France when they returned to Lenox and The Mount in 1904. They purchased a Pope-Hartford through

What can be learned about the life of a man who shoveled coal or hefted ice blocks most of his life?

The 1971 NET television docudrama “The Trail of Tears” featured singing legend Johnny Cash. Cash stayed at Eastover Resort in Lenox during filming of winter scenes there and at Brodie

Perhaps with the odd weather we’ve had all fall and into the winter, the blackbird has not felt the urge to fly south with his colleagues. Since 1967, blackbirds have

Eagle columnist Bernard A. Drew writes: "The advent of a new year is often a time of looking back. How about 100 years ago?"